Paranoia
Besides fear and loneliness, one of the things that pops up quite a bit is paranoia …. Paranoia about competition Paranoia about the market Paranoia about expanding The best ways to fight paranoia, I’ve learned, is by focusing on what you’re doing and trusting in your original vision.
Going to Be at WordCamp San Francisco?
Nathan and I from iThemes and our great friend Brian Gardner will be at WordCamp this weekend in San Francisco. Will you? If so, we’d love to meet you!
Low Hanging Fruit
This has to do with priorities and focus for the business … logically, you want to pick the easiest targets (customers or products/services) and go after those first … the ones you can pluck fast and maximize your revenues. Producing a cost versus benefit formula for this is vital … something I’m still working on.
On Mistakes
I had to accept early on, that because of my inexperience as a full-time entrepreneur in my first startup, that I would make plenty of mistakes. This hasn’t been easy when you don’t want any blemishes on your record. But finally accepting that I would make mistakes has helped. It hasn’t taken away from my…
A Site Redesign Worthy of the Brand
For the past 7 months or so, the iThemes website has been a severely hacked and slashed version of Brian’s awesome themes by yours truly … and this week we just unveiled a total site makeover and I think is worthy of our brand and what we offer at iThemes. It was designed by Brian…
Free WordPress Video Tutorials for WP 2.6
Check out the new set of free WordPress tutorials featuring the WordPress 2.6 Dashboard and other new features
A Digital Photo Gallery WordPress Theme
ShutterThemes, a division of iThemes focused on creating WP themes for photographers, has just released our next photo gallery WordPress theme — Digital Gallery 1. The Digital Gallery theme includes the following features: NEW! Automatic Image Resizing for Thumbnails Upload your own logo online via WP Dashboard Search engine optimize 3 Feature Areas Purchase Buy…
Sand Volleyball in College?!
Sand volleyball might be coming to the college ranks!
50 Topics for Businesses to Blog About
Chris Brogan, someone I’m thoroughly enjoying reading, posted 50 Blog Topics Marketers Could Write for Their Companies … it’s extremely useful and rich … I’m planning to use several of these topics
11 Places to Put Your Email Signup Form
VR suggests 11 places to put your email form, including on your blog, and for that I think the most important place is on your single post pages (interior posts)